International Conference on Digital Library Management (ICDLM)

Theme: Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and

Special Libraries

Science City, Kolkata, 11-13 January, 2011

Venue:      Science City, Kolkata

Organiser:  TERI, New Delhi

Co-Organiser:     Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation, Ministry of

Culture, Government of India, Kolkata

Continuous capacity development and awareness programmes are necessary to

achieve the objective of transforming the novice into digital librarians of

future. The success of ICDL 2004, ICDL 2006 and ICDL 2010 has encouraged

and motivated TERI, New Delhi and Raja Rammohan Roy Library Foundation,

Kolkata in partnership with Ministry of Culture, Government of India, New

Delhi to conduct of the ICDLM 2011 which will provide yet another

stimulating forum for DL professionals to share their knowledge, experience

and wisdom.

The theme of the proposed conference is “Extending Benefits of Modern

Technology to Public, Academic and Special Libraries”. The conference will

focus on creation, adoption, implementation and utilization of digital

libraries, e-learning and a knowledge society. Everyone can submit their research
paper.

Who should participate?

  (a)    Professionals from public, academic and special libraries

  (b)    Information Technology professionals.

  (c)    Content and knowledge managers

  (d)    Policy makers

  (e)    Academicians, students and distance learners

  (f)    Archivists and museologists

  (g)    Information providers and vendors.

  (h)    E-publishers and virtual electronic communities

  (i)    Library and Information Science professionals.

  (j)    All stakeholders in the digitization and knowledge business.

Conference will cover Original papers focusing on the theme of the

conference— Extending Benefits of Modern Technology to Public, Academic and

Special Libraries are invited for the. Some of the topics are listed below:

  §  DL development and management

  §  Content organization and management

  §  DL architecture and access management

  §  Knowledge management

  §  Digital preservation
  §  DL standards and policy

  §  Thesauri and ontologies, semantics, metadata and retrieval

  §  Open archives initiatives/PMH

  §  Multilingual and interoperability

  §  Copyrights issues in digital environment

  §  DL services and applications

  §  Collaboration and Networking between public libraries

Digital initiatives of public libraries  º  

  §  Open Educational resources

For Early–bird registration offer please visit

http://www.teriin.org/events/icdlm/registration.php

Registration:  please visit http://www.teriin.org/events/ICDLM

  Delegates fee   |    Up to 30 November 2010   |    After 30 November 2010

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  India and SAARC |   Indian Rs 3000 + Rs 309   |   Indian Rs 3500 + Rs 360

  countries       |         service tax         |         service tax

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  Other countries |           US$ 125           |           US$ 150

  (including      |                             |

  service tax)    |                             |

Contact:

DEBAL C KAR

Organizing Secretary

ICDLM Secretariat

TERI, Darbari Seth Block,

IHC Complex, Lodhi Road,

New Delhi – 110 003, India

Telephone 24644654, 24682100, 41504900

Fax 24682144, 24682145

E-mail icdlm@teri.res.in

Web www.teriin.org/events/icdlm

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